Comments about ‘Doug Robinson: NFL should give the boot to extra points’

Keep the PAT line of scrimmage the same so there is always the option to run or
pass for 2 points. Require that the PAT kick be what has disappeared from
original football, a drop-kick, and that the kicker be required to be a punting
distance away, at least from outside the 15-yard line.

The point after attempt gives added flexibility to offensive strategy according
to the situation, (i.e. time left on the clock, going for the tie or the lead,
either or which can come back to haunt you, etc. Going for one is more certain.
Going for two is more exciting. I like it the way it is. Don’t fix
something’s that’s not broken.

Clueless about soccer and agreeing with Bill Belichick? The first I can
understand. American sportswriters are as high-risk a group as there is when it
comes to succumbing to Not Invented Here Syndrome.

Sure, the 20% of those football fans who watch soccer will now try to convince
us non soccer fans that it is indeed exciting.

One of the few
impossible things to do in the world is to convince someone who are not fans of
something that seems boring to them is to sell them on the idea that the think
they see as boring is really exciting.

PATs are just not interesting.
Take kicks for PATs out. Don't try to make drop kicking interesting. Take
kickoffs twenty yards back to the fifteen.

And, by the way,
eliminate huddles; it'll take thirty to fifty pounds off overweight line
men.

Do away with the PAT's and then what next? Should we do away with touch
backs? How about doing away with the kick off returns that can lead to touch
downs? Or how about this, why not do away with both the O and D lines to reduce
the number of players running around on the field? I say to leave the game
alone, except doing away with head on collisions with pass catchers and
defensive backs until the receiver has a chance to gather themselves before
getting hit.

most agree PAT is boring. moving back adds little excitement or strategy.
Football is the BEST sport because it includes so many facets of athleticism,
strategy and odd ways of scoring, winning and losing. To add to this winning
recipe, the PAT should be attempted from the place where the ball crossed the
goal line, and the ability to score 1, 2, or 3 points should be awarded based on
the width of the uprights. In this way, a TD scored in the middle of the field
(more difficult) would be rewarded by the ability to kick from dead center
making it easier to go for 2 points or even 3 points. The NFL could easily
cover the increased cost of automatic mobile uprights. All of sudden the PAT
becomes a very exciting play potentially worth 3 points. Increased strategy is
added to the game in that all of sudden, just keeping the offense out of the end
zone is not enough, you must force them to the sidelines so that if they do
score, they will have to attempt the PAT from an acute angle making a 2 or 3
point try difficult.